About ERA
ERA (Education and Research Archive) is the University of Alberta's open access institutional repository, supported by the University of Alberta Library.
ERA preserves and makes accessible scholarly material related to research, teaching, and events at the University of Alberta. By providing an open access environment for researchers to archive and share their research, ERA enables compliance with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications. Canadian researchers whose home institution does not currently maintain an institutional repository can deposit their research with ERA, which is designated as an adoptive repository by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Undergraduate student work must be vetted by a Faculty or Department or through consultation with the Head, Digital Repositories before deposit in ERA.
ERA's primary service model is to mediate deposit on behalf of researchers to save them time. We help researchers determine if their material is appropriate for deposit, provide expert support in evaluating licensing and publisher permissions for deposit and online sharing, carry out deposits on behalf of researchers, and provide Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for the deposits. Please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca for assistance.
All items in ERA must have a file, and cannot exist as a metadata-only record.
In this guide, you will find the following content regarding ERA policies:
- Content Policy: What items may be found in ERA
- Take-Down Policy: Cause for item removal in ERA, or migration from ERA
- CCID-Authenticated Item Policy: Items within ERA that require CCID-Authentication to view.
- Metadata Policy: How items are described in ERA
- Adding Materials: How to add items within ERA
- Who may submit items?: Who may deposit items in ERA
- Curation Approval Workflow: What to expect, as part of our submission process.
- Digital Preservation Statement: Our dedication to digital preservation
- Deposit & Distribution Agreement: Our User Agreement
